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Happy hardware: tech lobbyist brings home the bacon

Fed money goes for energy and water industries to get more efficient. by Harry Fuller

Tags: Lobbyist, Hardware, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Does good Betsy McCaughey exist?

Betsy McCaughey is what she has always been, an industry lobbyist. To call her anything else, to refer to her as "Dr. McCaughey," is to endorse a deception. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Lobbyist, Dana Blankenhorn, Deception, Betsy McCaughey, Strategy, Management

Blog posts 2009-09-08

Innovate...then wait...and wait

I spoke with the CEO of an American company making state-of-engineering heat pumps. But his company can't get past the federal gatekeepers at the Department of Energy DOE. The Acadia system built and sold by Hallowell International just doesn't fit the old model for HVAC. I blogged...

Tags: Geothermal Energy, Lobbyist, Rebate, Department Of Energy, Acadia, Hallowell International, Quality, Construction, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-27

NFL lobbyist on White House staff pushes for online gambling ban

With a former NFL lobbyist now at the White House, Treasury takes time out from financial crisis to ensure that football gets a monopoly on online gaming, even though billions of dollars of taxable revenue are now flowing offshore. by Richard Koman

Tags: Business Ethics, Business Operations, Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Games, Government, Internet, It Operations, Leadership, Lobbyist, Management, NFL, Outsourcing, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Personal Technology, Regulations, Richard Koman, Strategy, Taxes, White House

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Verizon, AT&T delivered free cell tower to McCain ranch

Verizon and AT&T installed portable cell towers for the sole benefit of Cindy McCain, who suffers from poor cell reception at the McCains' 15-acre ranch near Sedona, Ariz., the Washington Post reported last night. The McCain campaign reacted angrily: ...

Tags: Lobbyist, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., John McCain, Cell, Cindy McCain, Professional Development, Career, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-16

Daily Debrief: Corn farmers vs. Google

CNET News.com's Charlie Cooper and Declan McCullagh discuss corn farmers who are taking anti-Google fight to Washington.

Tags: Google Inc., News, daily debrief, Charlie Cooper, Declan McCullagh, google, farm, corn, lobbyist, washington, search

Videos 2008-06-11

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News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-11-06

Happy hardware: tech lobbyist brings home the bacon

Bankrupt USAIn other news, Oboma gives out TRILLIONS of dollarsto other energy vendors with no liability andno need to repay.All of the tax payers will pay with higher taxes,inflation and worthless dollars.China is putting a stop to loaning the USA money.We are in deep, trouble.China is going to own this...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Bells give net neutrality the McCain two-step

For over a century the Bells have been masters of the bureaucratic game. Their failure in the Bell break-up, which delivered huge profits to investors, only taught them to fight harder. So after putting themselves together like the broom in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," of course they're going...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Net Neutrality: Hit satire coming to a theatre near you

The world is a simple place, until someone wants to tell you what to do.  The realization that not everyone believes in common ground that surrounds each of us seems to be a new discovery to some. The sanctity of individual requirements is wrapping around our lives with a plethora of effects that...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Actor, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-21

AT&T encourages employees to speak out against net neutrality

AT&T's top policy exec - aka lobbyist - has turned to AT&T employees for a last-chance campaign to flood the FCC with anti-net neutrality messages. In a memo that's starting to circulate around the Internet, Senior Executive VP Jim Cicconi tells encourages the employees, their friends and family to "join...

Tags: FCC, AT&T Corp., Net Neutrality, Cicconi, Federal Government, Government, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Senate climate bill must lure more support to pass

Hopelessly sophomoric[i]In general, the Republican Party will oppose any major legislation on any topic because it cannot afford to give Obama?s Administration a political victory.[/i]You don't suppose that anyone might oppose Cap and Trade legislation because it will be economically devastating with little to no actual environmental benefit? (http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm2503.cfm)Fuller...

Tags: U.S. Senate, Cap-and-Trade

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules

How They RollThis is just how the GOP rolls. When Bill Clinton left office we were number one or two in broadband. Now we're down around 17 behind some Eastern European countries. The GOP keeps saying they're about competition, but they keep passing bills to stifle real competition. Sort of...

Tags: Federal government, FCC, GOP, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

For your safety and convenience

Not intended as a political commentI cite Obama's disregard of the law and basic ethical principles because it's public, obvious, and widely known - not because it's dispicable (getting people to think about that is a bonus.)The right way to deal with policy opponents is to defend your own policies...

Tags: Obama

Discussion threads 2009-09-05

Will China save Apple?

Save Apple from what?All their industry leading profits when there is supposed to be a recession?yea, and I don't even like Applebut how can you justify a heading like this? Oh, I forgot, they have to be 'provocative', right? More and more these blogs have become running jokes and...

Tags: Smart phones, Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

ISP that cut off Pirate Bay hit hard, site is back online in hours

The resilience of the InternetIt was always a foregone conclusion that TPB would restart instantly in some other part of the internet, but I am a little surprised that hackers even bothered to punish the Dutch ISP that threw them off.RE: ISP that cut off Pirate Bay hit hard, site...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet Service Provider, Pirate Bay, TPB, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Colbert heats up global warming

Too funnySo, 350ppm means certain environmental disaster? And we're already above that? Hmmm...Back to the drawing board...I really REALLY resent the Chicken Littles running around screaming their heads off, and I'm gradually getting the feeling that, even if originally well-intentioned, they can't see the forest for the trees.What...

Tags: disclamer, Colbert, global warming, scientific community, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Global warming: he says this, but he says that...

Here's an interesting exploration of the lobbyist level argument going on in the U.S. about heating and cooling trends. If El Nino continues to heat things up, old precious 1998 may lose its crown as hottest hellacious year in recent history. The global warming deniers will then come...

Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Does HIMSS own the incoming Surgeon General?

HIMSS lobbyist Thomas M. Leary noted that Benjamin's clinic in Alabama received a $5,000 grant from the HIMSS foundation for rebuilding its IT infrastructure as part of the group's Katrina project. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-07-22

PR firms battle over Google's inside track to White House

The Washington Post takes a look at Google's complex relationship with Washington. For starters, CEO Eric Schmidt was closely tied to the Obama campaign, and is part of Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. But with three Google executives having left the...

Tags: Google Inc., White House, Public Relations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-05